MORE marans, and updates on red coturnix

To the left is a true red coturnix, to the right is what I'm calling an "Orange tibetan" the oranges were litterally ORANGE at hatching their down was gorgeous! Now as they feather out they have like an orange lacing it's really pretty. The reds have an almost baby blue lacing whic his really pretty to see. I only have two true reds, 1 red tux, and 1 red golden. They are the starting point of my red flock. I hope to breed red tuxedos with such a contrast of color it leaves you breathless of how beautiful they are! That's what I love about white on any color it just brings out the color! This picture though does neither color any justice! Suffice to say true red coturnix look like smooth milk chocolate, and the orange tibes are a normal tibe with orange lacing. I also have red tibes whic basically omit the orange for red. I didn't produce ANY of these colors, however the name "red tibetan" and "orange tibetan" I have made up because they have no color name and it suits them well.

I have in my incubator, over almost 2 doz marans eggs, half of which are hatching NOW, and the other half which were just put in yesterday! Something like 7 BC marans, and 3 BBS marans (clean legged on the BBS). They are for a color project I will be doing! My BC marans flock is growing and it just swells my heart with joy!!!

Not only that, I have several turkey eggs in the bator, as well as ringneck pheasant eggs, guinea eggs,a nd ofcourse theres ALWAYS coturnix eggs in the bator. Oh and Blue Laced Red Wyandottes!!! :) I am blessed.....nothing else to it. I have such wonderful people in my life that I just owe so much to....I hope to repay each and everyone of those someday somehow! Thank you to all who read this who know the thank you is JUST FOR YOU!!! *hugs*

I will have to wait a few more days and take a picture of my growing marans outside BOY are they gorgeous!!! Esp the Funny Farms Cockerel "Boots" he's just stunning!!!

Well I want to end this here and glue my nose back to the window on my incubator (bc's hatching is the highlight of my day)! LOL!

Lots due! Buttons, RIR and Coturnix!

Buttons due tomorrow, Rhode Island Reds due on friday, and Coturnix chicks due on Saturday! I'm excited about all three, the buttons are going to be grown up for a BYCer who wants them shipped to her, the RIRs are being hatched and taken on saturday to a gentlemen who wants them for his wifes future egg laying flock, and on that same day (saturday) 100+ coturnix are due! Fifteen of the coturnix are being kept for another lady who wants them grown up some and shipped out, another 25 are being held for a guy who wants them for flush training, and the rest are for me to grow out and keep woot!

A hen I had and sold a few weeks ago, I hatched out her last eggs, but sadly only one chick made it (I have several older birds from her from different sires). The chick that made it may be a red tuxedo according to a breeder I am blessed enough to converse with! :) We'll see though. Heres the cutie (on the left). Its very dark with two red lines going from it's head to it's rump which none of her other babies looked anything close to that. My goal for tuxedos right now is mostly just a VERY nice uniform bird, with as much white on the wings as possible and with nothing but a white belly. I'm slowly making headway in this area, but not 100% there yet. I am interested to see what this chickie turns out to look like white-markings-wise. Already I can tell that it's wings will not be entirely white as they'd have much more yellow on them. But the yellow on the face is REALLY nice, as is it on the chest. Every hatch I do, I am expressing more and more white so I'm actually not having to try too too hard to get where I want. This is a 3rd generation chick with a pedigree I can actaully trace back from my birds. All started with an A & M hen, she produced a Brown hen, I bred that brown hen with a not very nice marked tuxedo roo, that pairing produced a nicer marked tuxedo roo, who I bred to this chicks mama....and this chicks mama MAY have been a solid red, but I am unsure I was just calling her a rosetta but according to my breeder friend rossettas look entirely different than I had once thought.

Speaking of rosettas, I will be getting TRUE rosettas in my next purchase of eggs. These birds are supposed to be IDEAL birds for pets, bred for docile temperment (specifically bred for a mans daughter to hold) and from what I remember also very large! I am really anxious to get them! :)

I collected only two eggs today but it's not really suprising to me. Nothing but snow and clouds yesterday. I got a golden and an A& M eggie. Tomorrow I should get some more I'd think as it was deciently sunny. Some people don't realize just how much sunlight effects egg laying (atleast in coturnix quails).

Next week my Black Copper Marans from another breeder are due on thursday, you can BET I am happy! Then on the 18th almost 100 rhode island reds and rhode island red crosses are due to hatch they will be going to fellow BYCer friends of mine for them to resell since they get more customers than me. They wanted 100 but some eggs failed but theres like 97 or so eggs so not too bad as long as they all hatch haha. I shouldn't laugh though my incubator has been doing wonderful with high percentage hatches lately atleast with chickens. :)

You'd probably laugh if you saw our bedroom right now. I have two "grow-out brooders" in my room, that have mostly bc marans in them. They are mostly feathered birds but still mostly just blood feathers so they got to stay in still for a while atleast until it quits being so cold out. These birds are REALLY important to me so in here they stay. Cleaning their brooders atleast once a day is a chore though! Anywho what's funny is both brooders are actually just dog crates! LOL! 2 medium sized dog crates. They work really well as brooders actually. One is on top of my dog "Kodas" crate and then beside Kodas crate is the other brooder. Koda must think shes' a golden chicken mix instead of a golden retriever mix ha ha. Then the other brooder is a rabbit cage we bought specifically as a brooder, with 6 bantam chicks and 2 ducklings...and my 10 gallon brooder is empty as of right now. The one grow out brooder has two of Rosies older tuxedo chicks in it boy are they nice! "Flea" and another one I never named yet. I need to name the youngest one of Rosies. I'm thinking Clown. As he looks like he's got clown tears on his face. :)

Well, I think I'll end this here and type up some more pedigrees so I don't forget which birds come from which.

:)

Red & Red Tuxedo Coturnix In Da Bator

That's right folks! True red and red tuxedo coturnix finnally in my bator! 28 of them if I'm not mistaken. They were a lil pricey (but basically the same price as mine--yes I consider mine pricey compaired to mass producing breeders but I also look at quality over quanity) but well worth it! :)

I have a pretty bad sinous headache right now so if I don't seem as entusiastic as usual or quick instead of rambly like normal....the excedrin hasn't kicked in yet haha.

Starting to get a steady stream of customers interested in my coturnix eggs that should be going full force here in a few weeks *yay*. I'm getting 3-5 eggs a day now. Two from my A & M pen, 1 from my golden pen maybe two but it's hard to say because of when I collect them, and if I'm not mistaken 2 from my brown pen. Now everyone just needs to start layin and I'll be getting something like 12 a day. Would be more but my tuxedo and golden pen is low right now (youngsters and eggs developing on the way to change that).

Also planning on getting ANOTHER set of pens here soon, making or buying them. Making them myself would be best, but buying a pen from someone else would be easier ofcourse..but not really as we have no way to transport it here unless I bug my mom which I hate doing lol! Our jeep just isnt meant for lugging home scratchy wirey pens it barely fit my huge incubator! :)

I got some secrets in the works only a few know about in reguards to coturnix.....so just keep your eyes out. They're not here yet, but will be. *makes evil sneer*. Suffice to say it'll be some great new genetics.


My marans are growing like HORSES....I'll have to add a picture of them...well I have pictures of them from a few days ago I can add when a redtailed hawk swooped down on me and them while out in the fence (hawk didnt notice me until it almost pounced on the chicks that were on my lap and legs *faints*). It luckily noticed me there at the last second and had to fight to get air to get away from me. I would have punched it had it had any sucess at my chickies! :( Protected species...protect my poultry *growls*.


That's a picture of Boot the Funny Farms Cockerel from the C1 bloodline of Wade Jeane (sp?) everyone spells that poor mans name wrong...I probably am too so... there. LOL. A chick from my friend Belinda of Ninjapoodles (screen name and her dog breeding website name if I'm not mistaken) who I thought may be a pullet and most deffinatly is a cockerel. I finnally named.. "PokerFace". I love the new song pokerface by Lady Gaga, and since this cockerel bluffed me...it sounded appropriate. :D



Heres PokerFace just about 2 days ago walking around on my incubator top. Still sorting out his baby fluff, and looking oh so handsome! He's goin to be a gorgeous roo! *love* That creepy looking blue thing in the back is a caramic (sp?) castle tower (like what the witch hides the princess in) I made in highschool artclass...it makes a great paperweight! :) It's actually quite cute but looks pretty funky there and if anyones as curious as me you may have wanted to know what in the world that was. The pointy things are whitetail antlers.


Lets see and heres more pictures of the Funny Farms Trio. First is of Boot again, if you look closely in this pic you can see the coppering coming in on the back of his neck...he has more now but its' not been nice enough to let them out for pictures and such since this day. Well I take that back there was one nice day but I just penned them out and didnt baby sit and take pictures had too much else to do. You try having hundreds of eggs in your bator, some of which were "sold" and that are now available again because I never heard back from some people *pulls hair out* lol and having to rush around and make for sale ads everywhere and tell me if you always have time for piccies! :D Cleaning brooders daily takes me about a half hour, turning eggs about 6 mins, feeding them all, another half hour, collecting the bit of eggs, house chores, yelling at the cats to get off counters, feeding again, changing waterers, posting ads, yelling at the cats....yeah it makes for a busy me. :D








That's Scoot, she's an angel I love her to peices! Always wants to be right with me first to me everytime as long as she can battle the others to get there in time. :D



This Boogie she's a bit shy but Scoot is making her come around with me. She all but smothers me if I have mealwormies to share. :)













And even though it's not as pretty this small....while up there that day a quail feather blew out of one of the pens (prob brown pen more than likely) and landed on some leaves so I took a piccie. :D
I will update pictures when buttons, coturnix, bobwhites, rhode island reds, and crosses hatch.......im going to be engulfed! LOL!
And last but not least! My buddy Brian finnally made a blog himself and heres the link to it if you'd like to keep up with another birdie entusist! :D http://bsafflesfarms.webs.com/apps/blog/